Blend Phonics Chart English Sound-to-Symbol Associations

1. Consonants Sounds 25

2. Short and Long Vowels 10

3. R-Controlled Vowels 3

4. Special Vowel Sounds 5

43 Sounds

p wh f th1 t s sh ch k h b w v th2 d z (zh) j g m n ng qu l r y x

(c1 = k, c2 = s. s can say z. zh as in television. g1 = g, g2 =j)

qu = kw. x = ks. ph = f. gn = n. kn = n. wr = r. ck = k. tch = ch.

5 Short Vowels 5 Long Vowels -a- -e- -i- -o- -u- - a-e e-e i-e o-e u-e ea2 ay ee -y oa ew ai -e igh ow2 ea3 ea1 -o --y

ar or ur er ir (-or)

aw ow1 oy oo1 (as in moon) au ou oi oo2 (as in book, u in put) a(ll) Copyright © 2016, 2019 by Donald L. Potter

m

b

wh

w

qu =kw

fph

v

th

th

lll

rwr

t-ed

d-ed

nkn

sc

ss

zs

-a- -u--o--i-y

-e-ea

a-eay ai

ea

u-eeu, ew

ue

i-e-y

igh

e-eeeea

ie -y

o-eoa

ow-o oe

ar or urerir

(w) or

awau(a) ll

owou

oyoi

o͝ou

sh----ci--si-

-si--su-

/zh/

y

chtch

jg

-ge

kc

ck

g

ngnk

x =/ks

hConsonant Chart

5 Short Vowels Vowel Chart 5 Long Vowels

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this

o͞o

NotefromInternetPublisher:DonaldL.Potter

August15,2019

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Icreatedthischartbackin2016inanattempttodevelopaproprietarycharttousewithHazelLoring’sReadingMadeEasywithBlendPhonicsforFirstGrade.Formanyyears,IhaveusedthePhonovisualChartforteachingthesound-to-symbolassociations.TheseassociationsconnectthespokensoundsofEnglishthatthechildrenknowtothespellingswiththe26lettersofthealphabet.MychartissimilarinorganizationtothePhonovisualChart,butinahorizontalinsteadofverticalorientationfortheconsonants.Myconsonantchartviewsthemouthfacingtotheleft.Itbeginsinthefrontofthemouthandworksitswaytothebackofthemouth.Forinstructionalpurposes,quandxareconsideredastwodifferentspeechsounds,althoughtheyareactuallysuperfluoussincetheyareactuallyblends.(qau=/kw/,x=/ks/).Inkeepingwithlinguisticaccuracy,Idonotcountthemasseparatesounds.

StudentwillfindtheBlendPhonicsSound-AssociationChartahandyportableaidtohelpmastertheassociationsandbecomefluentphoneticreaders.

Thechartscontainthemostcommonsound-to-symbolrelationships,othersaretaughtintheBlendPhonicsLessonsandStories.

Herearemy“BlendPhonicsFacialDiagrams”forteachingthearticulationoftheEnglishPhonemes.Thisistheperfecttoolfordevelopingphonemicawarenessinallstudentsfrompreschoolthroughadult.Thisdocumentalsoincludesaveryvaluablephonemearticulationtest.

http://donpotter.net/pdf/blend_phonics_facial.pdf

HereareFlashcardsfordevelopingphonemicawarenessandthesound-to-symbolassociationsneededforfluentreading.

http://donpotter.net/pdf/bf_cards_sounds.pdf

LatestrevisiononSeptember10,2019.

InternetResources

http://www.rose-medical.com/

https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/esl/pronunciation.cfm

https://www.soundsofenglish.org

https://www.dvusd.org/cms/lib/AZ01901092/Centricity/Domain/3795/Sound_Spelling_Chart.pdf“Lane’sEnglishGuidetoPronunciation”isveryhelpful.

http://esl-online.net/probook1view.pdf

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/98193/j.1467-1770.1949.tb01145.x.pdf;sequence=1http://web.ntpu.edu.tw/~language/sound/text.pdf

https://pronuncian.com/sounds

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED095708.pdf

http://web.ntpu.edu.tw/~language/sound/text.pdf

https://miblsi.org/sites/default/files/Documents/MIBLSI_Sequence/School/Elementary/Supplemental/PhonemicAwareness/Revised_Heggerty_PA%20%28for%20posting%29.pdf

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1594&context=gc_etds

FirstLessonsinSpeechImprovementbyBirminghamandKrapp(1922).OneofthebestbookseveronthesoundofEnglish.Verypractical!

https://archive.org/details/firstlessonsinsp00birmuoft

https://archive.org/details/pronunciationst01krapgoog/page/n3

http://www.learnlanguagesonyourown.com/places-of-articulation.html

https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/spsci/iss/index.php

https://www.dvusd.org/cms/lib/AZ01901092/Centricity/Domain/3795/Sound_Spelling_Chart.pdf